How Much Will North Carolina’s Older Population Grow in the Next Generation?

• 967,000 North Carolinians are age 65 or older (12.8%) in 1998

• Over 107,000 are age 85 or older in 1998

• More than 2 million will be age 65 or older (21.4 %) in 2025

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As this slide indicates, North Carolina has nearly a million older adults, and that number is expected to double by the year 2025, due to the aging of the Baby Boomers.